Richard Joseph Gallot Jr., known as Rick Gallot (born April 1966) was named president of the

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in October 2023 after serving nearly nine years as president of Grambling State Also he was a Democratic member of the

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for

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. In the

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held on October 22, 2011, Gallot received 12,992 votes (50.3 percent). Gallot, an African American born in Ruston, graduated from the

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and the

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. He is a member of Grambling's Gamma Psi chapter of

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and an inductee of the Southern Law Hall of Fame. In 2012, he succeeded the term-limited white Democratic Senator Joe McPherson. Despite a generally liberal voting record, in 2014 Gallot was one of only two Democrats in the State Senate to vote against reforming Louisiana's payday lending laws, having sided with the payday lending industry against a grassroots campaign that supported reform. Gallot did not seek reelection in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24, 2015. In April 2016, Gallot began serving on the Board of Directors of Cleco Corporation, an electric utility company based in Pineville, Louisiana. Gallot was selected as president of

and to begin his tenure, donated $20,000 to the institution noting, "I wouldn't ask anyone to do what I wouldn't do myself." In October 2023, Gallot was named president of the

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